Saturday Social Post

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Hello, television viewers! Welcome to the weekend!
Feel free to talk about any TV-topic you want, below is an optional texty to use.

Name
What TV have you been watching?
Any recent season finale knock your socks off?
Book to television. Do you watch any shows like this? What are your thoughts on how medium transfers?


<B>Name </b> <B>What TV have you been watching? </b> <B>Any recent season finale knock your socks off? </b> <B>Book to television. Do you watch any shows like this? What are your thoughts on how medium transfers? </b>

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OMG Sense8
*clutches chest
Love that show so much.

I read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, but didn't watch the series. Mini-series? Not sure which it was off hand. In any case, that seemed like it would be a very difficult book to adapt. How did you like the series?

Casting can be tricky. For example, in The Expanse, Jim Holden isn't cast anything like I'd expect based on the books - but his more youthful casting helps flesh out the 'out-of-my-depth' sense that the books gave via inner dialogue vs. what sort of impression they can impart on screen.

I've never heard of the Nero Wolfe show and had to google it - the A&E network also did the Longmire book adaptation (although Netflix picked it up for additional seasons after it was canceled). That network seems to lean towards more drama vs. action and I think books lend themselves to that sort of thing pretty well.

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JS&MN was a UK series, so would probably be considered a mini-series if made in the US! I think they had a pretty good go at it and certainly some of the casting was excellent (the guy playing Childermass was exactly as I'd pictured him and when I re-read the book I'll probably have his face in mind when he's about) but it's a very difficult, very dense book with lots of footnotes and of course that couldn't be recreated. For me, the footnotes give that book the whole period feel it's supposed to have and there's no way around it.

I wonder whether shows have a tendency to want to cast younger if the character concerned is meant to be a love interest? Or they can go the other way and do Hollywood-teenager, where everyone knows that the supposed high school student is actually in their mid-20's, hence the perfect teeth and skin.